#VCP #Storage #Concept Mechanism that allows the assignment of characteristics of you Storage to your VM. Some VM might need faster storage or better/worse DR capabilites/Raid levels. Can be created on vCenter for a specific storage, once created you need to assign a Datastore to the configured critere and then assign the Policy to the desired VM. ## VM Storage Policies for host-based data services rules for services provided by ESXi host. For example compression/encryption. But also configuration for Storage I/O Control & limits/reservation/shares is done here. ## VM Storage Policies for vVols Rules for VMs which can be created on top of a vVol datastore. Can be created based on replication level or performance characteristics. Policies can be created using tags. Need to be created based on the Hardware array capabilites and configuration. ## vSAN specific Storage policies see [[vSphere - vSAN.md#vSAN Specific storage policies]] ## 🔗Resources